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By
Dan Robitzski
Welcome
back to our weekly
newsletter highlighting
the opinions and
perspectives of the SpaceNews
community.
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Space
based nuclear command,
control and communications
(NC3) systems are
increasingly integrated or
reliant on commercial as
well as government
systems. And that
hybridization puts space
infrastructure at risk as
the lines between
civilian, commercial and
military infrastructure
gets blurred, argues
a recent opinion
article by
Qurat-Ul-Ain Shabbir, a
researcher at Quaid-i-Azam
University and the Centre
for International
Strategic Studies AJK.
This
strategic ambiguity
presents a serious risk,
according to the article,
by potentially
accelerating conflict
through attacks on
civilian systems and
increasing the likelihood
of miscalculation in
already volatile nuclear
environments.
See the full article on SpaceNews here.
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An
illustration of a
Starcloud orbital data
center, designed to power
artificial intelligence
workloads in space.
Credit: Starcloud
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More
companies around the world
are forging ahead with
plans for orbital data
center constellations. But
those plans will be
stymied by a lack of
shared architectures and
standards, argues a
commentary article
by John David Callison, a
global strategic sourcing
executive and advisor at
Abelian Security Council,
and Joseph Minafra, lead
of innovation and
technical partnerships for
the NASA Solar System
Exploration Research
Virtual Institute.
"The
absence of shared
standards does more than
slow progress; it distorts
the economics," they
wrote. "Investors price
uncertainty, and in
today’s environment, every
orbital data center is
effectively a
first-of-its-kind system.
That means unquantifiable
technical risk, limited
comparables and ultimately
a higher cost of capital.
Until interoperability and
certification frameworks
exist, financing will
remain constrained not by
ambition but by avoidable
uncertainty."
See the full article here.
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a sense of what we’re
looking for. The
perspectives shared in
these opinion articles
are solely those of the
authors and do not
necessarily represent
their employers or
professional
affiliations.
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